AEC Regent V, Court Street and State Street

 

Like many people with only a passing familiarity with British buses, I immediately assumed this guards red example was an old London Routemaster. However, this is not the case, as perhaps a cursory glance at the radiator would have told me. It was made sometime between 1954 and 1969 by the Associated Equipment Company, essentially a British-Leyland owned factory for British Transport. Despite what the imaginary route on the destination blind and the 007 bus number might make one think, this bus would only have been sold to operators outside London itself.